How to Use cattle guard in a Sentence

cattle guard

noun
  • Just before the cattle guard, a rough road spins off to the right.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Lincoln's portrait was fastened to the front of the engine above the cattle guard.
    — Dawn Mitchell, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018
  • Fences separate predators from potential prey (that’s you), and cattle guards about a car-length long mark the borders between habitats.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 12 July 2018
  • Turn right on Morgan Road, drive to the end of the pavement, cross the cattle guard and continue 80 yards to the trailhead parking on the left.
    — Roger Naylor, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • This spring, the organization is removing three of four gates on the Corrals Trail and replacing them with cattle guard-like grates.
    — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 21 Mar. 2026
  • There is this really powerful moment in the film of Jamaica huddled on the cold asphalt, chained to a cattle guard, in an effort to block the construction.
    — Eunica Escalante, Vogue, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The road twists downhill and crosses the sandy riparian strip before heading uphill again to a cattle guard and fence line signed for U Cross Ranch.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
  • Farther up the road, a group of seven Native Hawaiian protectors chained themselves to a cattle guard as a second line of defense in case law enforcement arrested the kūpuna.
    — Trisha Kehaulani Watson-Sproat, Vox, 24 July 2019
  • Just a few yards east of the tank, a cattle guard and sign post for Cottonwood Trail 9709 signals the beginning of an optional continuation of the hike.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Each summer — often several times a summer — my family drove over Tioga Pass, crossed the cattle guard up into Lundy Canyon, stripped on the rock beside the swimming hole, plunged into the snowmelt and emerged, elated and cleansed.
    — Elizabeth Weil, ProPublica, 3 Jan. 2022

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